Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest from eight months to ten months. The general character of the competition will remain unchanged. The three hour examinations will not be divided but it is intended to allow contestants to spend the time to their best advantage instead of requiring a certain number of minutes to be spent on each question...
Byers attended St. George's School at Middletown, Rhode Island. While in college he was a member of the Freshman Finance Committee, the 150-pound crew squad, and the Senior Endowment Committee. Following graduation he spent a year at the Harvard Business School, after which he entered the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1928 he received an A. M. in Anthropology, and contemplates further work in that field next year...
...shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company; the sale having been dictated by the I. C. C. With them went the last vestige of the Fifth Trunk Line which Juggler Loree had spent some four years attempting to construct. For union of the Kansas City Southern and the Cotton Belt was essential to the southern portion of the Loree plan. The northern portion has, of course, long since collapsed. So passes from the rail consolidation stage Juggler Loree, shrewd and potent but faced with...
...Conservative. Therefore the angry Labor pixie spat at Conservative Churchill that his latest opus was a "Brib-ery Budget!" After that-cripple or no cripple-it was Parliamentary war to the knife. Not unnaturally, Mr. Churchill, a man of flesh and gusto, who looks as if he had never spent a sick day in his life, watched keenly for a chance to catch his enemy off guard. Swaying on his canes, Mr. Snowden worked himself up to a pitch of spleen, harked back to the old debt settlements made by Chancellor Churchill with France and Italy, declared them to have...
Canada 916.2 United Kingdom 847.3 Germany 467.2 Japan 288.1 France 240.7 Argentina 178.9 China 165.2 Italy 162.1 Netherlands 142.3 Australia 141.3 Imports. Canada, largest purchaser of U. S. goods, was also the country for whose merchandise the most U. S. dollars were spent. Not the British Isles, however, but Japan attracted the next largest U. S. expenditure. Of the three countries; however, only imports from Canada showed an increase. Decline in silk prices accounted for the Japanese shrinkage, decline in tin prices for the British. Paper (newsprint) and copper were the Canadian products that chiefly swelled Canada's income...